Levi Baker Vilas

Levi Baker Vilas (25 February 1811-6 February 1879) was a Democratic politician in Wisconsin.

Biography
Levi Baker Vilas was born in Randolph, Vermont in 1811, and he became a lawyer in 1833 and served in the Vermont State House in 1836 and the State Senate in 1840. In 1851, he and his family moved to Madison, Wisconsin, and he served as its Mayor before serving in the State Assembly in 1855, 1868, and 1873. He died in 1879, and his son William Freeman Vilas would go on to serve as a US Senator.